One of the newest attendees, Cory, posted FloridaCreatives.com to StumbleUpon, which resulted in 32 visitors in one day (if Feedburner has the right of it). Cool.

I guess I need to get an account over there. That's some nice free traffic.

Please put one of your friends in StumbleUpon, today.

Our monthly "coffee and coworking" event is happening this Friday, Likemind.orl, sponsored by Anomaly. Piers and Noah will be celebrating one year of Likemind.us in New York, and we're going to help them (sleepily) in Orlando by drinking coffee near Lake Eola at an early hour. There will be nametags, Alex, Ryan (me) and a small cast of people who work downtown. We are encouraged to take pictures (I'm thinking video, less caption-writing...) and upload them to flickr tagged with "likemind".

8:00 AM - ?11:00AM
Lake Eola Panera Bread
Northeast Corner of the lake
Corner of Robinson and Eola Dr.

A big thanks to everyone who came out to Florida Creatives on Monday - the strong presences by NFI Studios and the SomaCow Media Network make me feel really good about the long-term validity of a local "glue network" where groups gather in one big meta-group. Now we just need more traditional artists to realise the value of the group (or to check their email, is there some better way we can get to them?). We are doing well with the new media types and programmers, and I'm very very glad we can get together and openly discuss what's going on with us, with out community, and the rest of the world.

There are people I run into around town - poets, artists, musicians, filmmakers, actors and the like who I actively recruit to attend, yet haven't been able to make it yet. We had a remote happy hour across the street from the Enzian once, and that had a great film turn-out in addition to the regular gang. The Fringe Festival meetup kindof got lost in the general hullaballoo, and I think some active flyering can help at big events and remote events.

This is the kind of thing I think one would study if they attended FIEA. Video by Robert Scoble of PodTech

EDIT: The woman speaking here is Nicole Lazarro from XEO Design. The event is iPhoneDevCamp 2007, just one week after the initial launch of the iPhone - held in Silicon Valley.

Update: Oops! somehow this didn't get posted! Here it is a few days late.

Wow, the "B" terminal at the Orlando airport has certainly looked better - I'm flying US Air today (because I was trying to save $50 and they had a cheaper flight to Manchester, NH), and the 50-59 wing is looking ragged. At least the free wi-fi still works.

I left my MacBook power cord safely at home -- feeling really great about having to find a big-box computer store in rural Maine. If you live there, or New York City or Boston, comment on this post and we'll get in touch.

I'm hoping to get in some quality time with the kids from Fractured Atlas (and Six Characters), and I'm sending a random email to Loren Feldman to see if he responds. It would also be cool to hook up with Piers or Noah from Likemind, since I have an Orlando chapter (the next meeting is the 20th).